A prize of $500 will be given to the winner of 1455’s Second Teen Poetry Contest. 1455’s second Summer Literary Festival (July 16-18) will include a special Teen Poetry Reading, featuring Maia Siegel, who is co-judging the contest (along with writers on the 1455...

On behalf of 1455, I am wishing everyone as much health and happiness as it’s possible to convey during challenging times. As I mentioned last month, as part of our mission to produce as much free content and programming as possible, it seems that there’s never been a...

Write what you know: at once the best and worst counsel offered to the aspiring fiction writer. It is insufficient, if not too smug and certain, too limiting, and possibly counterproductive. But still…it’s necessary. Of course, on occasion, even the author isn’t...